Every man and his internet-enabled pooch probably knows that over the last year or two, Big Apple Event equals New iPod. And the speculation kept mounting each time that this would be the one, the killer, the Video iPod that would surpass all comers, and at the last one, dropped in almost casually with a “One more thing…” title, they finally Did It and unleashed the next generation of iPod… without actually calling it that, or putting ‘video’ in the name at all. ...
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, referred to as the DMCA, is a law of the USA regarding copyright in the new era of digital content. The act was designed to implement the 1996 Copyright Treaty from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO). The intent of the WIPO Copyright Treaty is to extend the Berne Convention of 1886, the first international recognition of copyrights. The WIPO Treaty enables protection for computer programs as literary works, recognising their inherent intellectual property value, among other similar provisions that are relevant to the digital content era.1 ...